derly in a large city in Sweden is used in this paper.
The majority of elderly people live in their own homes
and to enable them to live independently, a range of taxfinanced
services is provided by the public sector. Many
Swedish public sector services are decentralised to local
government sectors, called counties and municipalities,
which provide the services (Olson and Sahlin-Andersson,
2005).1 The current structure for the provision of elderly
care has been in place since the beginning of the 1990s.
In 1991, the new Local Government Act was issued, and
in 1992, the Care of the Elderly Reform was launched. As
far as domestic care of the elderly was concerned, this
meant that central government only used framework laws